Henryk Minkiewicz

Henryk Minkiewicz (19 January 1880-9 April 1940) was a General of the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and he was killed in the Katyn Massacre in 1940.

Biography
Henryk Minkiewicz on 19 January 1880 in Suwalki, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. He joined the Polish Socialist Party in 1898 and was a cofounder of the Union of Active Struggle with Jozef Pilsudski, and he rose to the rank of General in the Polish Army after Poland gained its independence in 1918. Minkiewicz led the disarmament of the Central Powers garrison in Warsaw in November 1918, and he was a Brigadier-General in the Polish-Ukrainian War and Polish-Soviet War. Minkiewicz's wife was killed in 1939 in the Soviet Union's bombardment of Poland during the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, and he was interned in the Kozielsk concentration camp by the USSR after being captured by the Red Army. On 9 April 1940, he was killed in the Katyn Massacre with 14 other Polish generals and admirals.